Note: as of 2020, we recommend newer FullCalendar approach. These instructions are here for historical purposes.
You may use the HTML tags below, courtesy of Kevin Ilsen’ JavaScript Event Calendar to put a calendar on your website. See an example of what the event calendar looks like.
If you just want holidays and no candle-lighting times, put these tags in the <head> section of the page:
Then, somewhere in the <body> section of the page where you want the calendar to appear, use these tags:
To add candle-lighting times for your city or town, you can change lines 1 and 2 in the first code block above as follows to include a zip code.
Be sure to change 90210 to your shul’s zip code. For example,
Note the following customizable parameters and their meanings:
- nh=on – major holidays
- nx=on – Rosh Chodesh
- mf=on – minor fasts
- ss=on – special Shabbatot
- s=on– Parashat ha-Shavuah on Saturday
- i=off – Diaspora sedra scheme
- i=on – Israel sedra scheme
- c=on – candle lighting times
- zip=90210 – use zip code 90210 for candle lighting times
- m=72 – Havdalah 72 minutes after sundown. Set to m=0 (zero) to disable Havdalah times
- D=on – Hebrew date for dates with some event
- d=on – Hebrew date for entire date range
- o=on – Days of the Omer
Note mutually exclusive language parameter:
- lg=s – Sephardic transliterations
- lg=sh – Sephardic translit. + Hebrew
- lg=a – Ashkenazis transliterations
- lg=ah – Ashkenazis translit. + Hebrew
- lg=h – Hebrew only